2009/2010 Recipients of Humanities Research Awards:

Yoav Di-Capua, Assistant Professor of History, for “Arab Thought on the Eve of Dystopia, 1939-1967”

Alison Frazier, Associate Professor of History, for “The Beginning of the World in the Italian Renaissance: Conversations about Creation, 1300-1500”

Karen Grumberg, Assistant Professor of Hebrew, for “Hebrew Gothic: Narrative, Nation, and the Discourse of Victimization”

Sabine Hake, Professor and Texas Chair of German Literature and Culture, Germanic Studies, for “Political Affect: The Fascist Imaginary in Postfascist Cinema”

Tracie Matysik, Associate Professor of History, for a monograph, “Spinoza Matters” and a translation, “Women on Nietzsche, Gender, and Sexuality”

Robert Oppenheim, Associate Professor of Asian Studies, for “An intellectual History of Korea and American Anthropology”Paula Perlman, Professor of Classics, for two Cretan Studies, “The Inscribed Laws of Ancient Crete” and “Constructing Crete: Society and History, ca. 1000-400 B.C.”

Guy Raffa, Associate Professor of Italian, for “Dante's Bones”

Jorie Woods, Professor of English, for “Weeping for Dido: Male Writers and Female Emotions in the Late Medieval and Early Renaissance Classroom”